Buzz Spector

Education


Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, B.A., Art (Studio), 1972
University of Chicago, M.F.A., Committee on Art and Design, 1978



Recent Exhibits

        One Person Shows
        2002    Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR 
                Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI    
        2001    Cristinerose Gallery, New York 
                "Public/Private Peace," List Art Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (installation) 
                "My Fiction: Buzz Spector and the Book, " Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (installation) 
		2000    Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 
        1999    Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
                "Authors and Thinkers," University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
        1998    Cristinerose Gallery, New York (catalogue)
                Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 
        		"Beautiful Scenes: Selections from the Cranbrook Archives by Buzz Spector," Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield    Hills,          MI (installation with catalogue) 
        1997    Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 
                Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago 

		Selected Group Shows   
		2002    "Art on Paper 2002," Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
                "Fine and Folk: the Ruth and Robert Vogele Gift, " Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (catalogue) 
                "Visually Speaking," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 
                "Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 
                "Artists' Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library," Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of  Wisconsin, Madison 
		2001    "Libri fotografici," curated by Mirella Bentivoglio for La Cuba d'Oro, Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy 
                "A Private Reading: The Book as Image & Object," Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, NYC 
		2000    "Thinking About Time: Buzz Spector and Manabu Yamanaka," UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO 
                "20 x 24 Polaroids," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago 
                "Out of Line: drawings by Illinois artists," Chicago Cultural Center (catalogue)
        1999    "Disorienting Signs," Leonora Vega Gallery, New York (catalogue)
                "Sarah Krepp and Buzz Spector," Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, TX        
                "The Other Book," Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH (catalogue)                     
        1998    "Testo e Contesto: il libro-ambiente (Text and Context: the book as attitude)," Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo   Falconieri, Rome, Italy (installation with catalogue)
        1997    "Unbound: art in book form/book as art form," Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN 

Selected Bibliography 
	2002    Hyde, James. "Buzz Spector at Cristinerose," Art in America, April 2002: 148-49 (illus.). 
                Princenthal, Nancy. "Artists' Book Beat," Art on Paper, Vol. 6, no. 4 (March/April 2002): 99. 
	2001    Donohoe, Victoria. "Photography exhibit focuses on images of peace in history," Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, November 18, 2001: H1 (illus.). 
                Johnson, Ken. "Buzz Spector," New York Times, October 5, 2001: E32.
        2000    Protzman, Ferdinand. "'The Artist and His Books': Eloquent Fictions at Mateyka," Washington Post, Thursday,     October 26, 2000: C1,C5.
                Vogler, Thomas A. "When a Book is Not A Book," in Rothenberg, Jerome and Clay, Stephen, eds., A Book of the     Book, New York: Granary Books, Inc. 2000: 448-466.            
        1999    Hubert, Renée Riese and Hubert, Judd. The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books, New York: Granary Books,     Inc., 1999.
                Eisler, Colin. "Author, Author!" Art On Paper, Vol. 3, no. 3 ( January-February 1999): 41-43 (illus.).
        1998    Bonfiglioli, Patrizia. "Testo e Contesto (il Libro Ambiente)," Terzo Occhio (Italy), No. 89 (December 1998): 71-72.
                Finkel, Jori. "Authors: New Work by Buzz Spector," Art On Paper, Vol. 2, no. 6 (July-August 1998): 47 (illus.).
                Carducci, Vincent. "Buzz Spector at Cranbrook Art Museum," New Art Examiner, Vol. 25, no, 10 (July-August       1998): 63-64 (illus.). 
		1997    Marcoci, Roxana, Murphy, Diana, and Sinaiko, Eve, eds. New Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997: 120-121 (illus.). 
                Vine, Richard. "Where the Wild Things Were," Art in.America, Vol. 85, no. 5 (May 1997): 98-111.

Recent Publications by the Artist 
	2001    Details: closed to open, artists' book of photographic details from images in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, an archive of historical and contemporary information on                 peace and social justice, edition of 3,000, published by the artist and Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 
                "Installing at the Mattress Factory: a reminiscence," essay in Giannini, Claudia, Ed. Mattress Factory 1990-1999, 
                Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001: 10-14. 
	1998    Crenshaw Stories, catalogue documenting a public art project, edition of 1,000, published by the artist and MTA Metro Art, Los Angeles           
                Beautiful Scenes: selections from the Cranbrook Archives, artist-designed exhibition catalogue, edition of 600, plus 24 deluxe, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Awards                  
		1991    Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
        		Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts
		1985   Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts
		1982   Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts